Two major categories of philosophical argument for God are arguments from being, and arguments from order. That there is something rather than nothing, and order rather than disorder, is taken to imply that there is an intelligent, willful creator - a God. But does this hold up to scrutiny? No - on the contrary, when understood in the most general and metaphysical sense, being and order are uncreatable - what I like to call “immune to fiat”. A supposed God might say "fiat lux", but cannot do the same for being and order. If there is something rather than nothing - being rather than utter nonbeing - then this cannot have a cause, since anything that might be called a cause must itself be in some sense. If being cannot have a cause, then it cannot be caused by a creator. If there is order rather than disorder, then this likewise cannot have a cause, since to say that something was caused is to presuppose that order was already in place. If it weren't, things would no